El Paso police are investigating a shooting on Coco Palm in East El Paso Monday. A woman is dead and a man has been injured in the Eastside incident. A third person, who was shot in a Northeast El Paso apartment, also has died. Police said both incidents are related.

Two Fort Bliss soldiers died Monday morning in separate but related shootings that occurred less than two hours apart in two different parts of El Paso, according to police officials who have yet to disclose details of what happened.

The first shooting occurred on the far East Side of town at around 6:42 a.m. Police said a 44-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were shot while inside their home in the 3700 block of Coco Palm. The woman was a Fort Bliss soldier. She died at the scene. The man was seriously injured and taken to a local hospital.

Then at 8:30 a.m., police responded to a second shooting, this one in Northeast El Paso. The 41-year-old man in this shooting died from his injuries Monday afternoon. He, too, was a Fort Bliss soldier.

"The Fort Bliss community extends its thoughts and prayers to the families, friends and Soldiers of the Fort Bliss family," officials said in a written statement.

Post officials said they are cooperating with police in their investigation into the shootings. Fort Bliss officials said Monday evening that they don't plan on identifying the victims until today.

El Paso police spokesman Detective Mike Baranyay said Monday night that the shootings are believed to be related but declined to specify how they are linked.

However, police did say there are no suspects at large.

The first shooting occurred in the Las Palmas neighborhood, which is a gated community in far East El Paso. There, police found a deceased woman and an injured man. Both suffered gunshot wounds.

Yellow-and-red police tape blocked the streets in the upper middle-class neighborhood for most of the day Monday. About three hours after the shooting was reported, a young boy was seen walking outside the house, talking to a Crimes Against Persons detective.

According to emergency radio transmissions, a boy reported the East Side shooting and was with one of the victims at the time he made the call.

Neighbors said the couple who lived in the home where the shooting took place had recently hosted a yard sale. They reportedly told neighbors they were getting ready to deploy overseas.

The second shooting occurred at around 8:30 a.m. in the 8900 block of Kenneth in Northeast El Paso. The man injured in that shooting, which took place in an apartment complex near the Wellington Chew Senior Center, later died from his injuries.

Yolanda Rodriguez, 44, said she saw police running into the complex with large rifles. An ambulance was also seen leaving the area slowly.

"I was just arriving at the center because I come here with the elderly, and saw policemen running in with the big guns," said Rodriguez, who was near the apartment complex shooting and arrived around the same time as police. "I was driving up, I parked my car and I saw police running back and forth."

Adriana M. Chávez may be reached at achavez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6117.

Aaron Bracamontes may be reached at abracamontes@elpasotimes.com; 546-6156.

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